Senior Scheduler

Responsibilities

• Interface with the Government, customers, program personnel, stakeholders, program management, and senior technical personnel to obtain information to develop and maintain an integrated master schedule of all training events.
• Monitor schedules, report performance, highlight potential issues, and assist with developing courses of action to mitigate issues.
• Maintain a high-level calendar to track and display upcoming program reviews, milestone decisions, and deliverables.
• Create, revise and update the dashboard overview of all program document status weekly, monthly and annually.
• Assist project teams to coordinate, schedule, and facilitate daily project team meetings, weekly meetings with the Government, and weekly to monthly meetings with customers and other project stakeholders.

Required Experience / Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or an Engineering discipline preferred, work related experience can be substituted for degree.
• 8+ years of related job experience in working on government DoD programs.
• Extensive experience working in an Agile environment using Jira and Confluence
• Extensive experience developing and maintaining schedules and status reporting using Jira and Confluence to also include linking the schedules to Sprints and automating graphical reports
• Strong MS Office experience
• Ability to generate schedules for training events and integrate them into the master schedule
• Ability to generate courses of action and demonstrate how they mitigate issues
• Ability to develop graphical depictions of schedule status of the training events
• Ability to develop professional briefings suitable for high-level military and Government personnel
• Must have good presentation, communication, and training skills.
• Must have good analytical skills and work well in teams.
• Must have good organizational skills and ability to coordinate multiple activities effectively.
• Must be self-motivated and have the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• CompTIA Security+ certification (or other DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification) or ability to obtain within 90 days of hire date.

Preferred Experience / Qualifications

• PMI Certification (., PMI-SP, CAPM, PMP)
• Experience with the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC)

Special Requirements / Security Clearance

TS / SCI clearance is required.

By Light provides a broad range of hardware, software, engineering, and IT integration services. Headquartered in Tysons, VA, we support defense, civilian, commercial, and health IT customers worldwide.

We offer an excellent benefits package that includes : medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid time off, paid holidays, and 401(k) match.

An Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities